The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures at the Tokyo National Museum
Trial Service of the Location Aware Video Museum Guide
Location Amp for the Gallery of Horyuji Treasures

At Koozyt, we have developed a new museum guide solution that presents video content according to the user's location in the building and also allows users to give feedback regarding the exhibits. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this system, we will be conducting a trial service at the Gallery of Horyuji Treasures at the Tokyo National Museum. For the trial service, we have developed an application for the iPhone 3GS.

The guide content for the application was created under the supervision of the Tokyo National Museum. We have also received full cooperation from them to perform this trial service at the museum. Also, we received cooperation from Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. in the production of this service.

The trial service will be conducted in Japanese. Also the museum guide application only supports Japanese content. We appreciate your understanding regarding this trial service.

Trial Service

Name: Location Amp for the Gallery of Horyuji Treasures
Trial Period: Jan. 21, 2010 (Thu) - Feb. 7, 2010 (Sun)
Venue: Tokyo National Museum  The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures
Supported Language: Japanese
Platform used: iPhone 3GS

The application will only be available on the iPhones rented out at the museum during the above period. It will not be released on the App Store.

Location Amplifier for the Gallery of Horyuji Treasures

  • Incorporates PlaceEngine (a location estimation service that uses wireless LAN signals) to determine where the user is within the museum
  • A guide is displayed in the application according to your location and direction
    • Colors of the floor map changes automatically according to your location
    • A video guide of the exhibits near the user is played back automatically
    • Commentaries of the exhibits are also played back automatically
  • Provides inteactive user feedback input feature
  • Logs users' movement and actions (with users' permission) to improve service quality

Screenshots

Intro 1 Intro 2 Commentary Mode

Floor Map Screen List of Contents

Demo Movie

Currently only Japanese video is available.

* iPhone is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
* "PlaceEngine" is a trademark of Koozyt, Inc.
* "PlaceEngine" was developed by Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. and is licensed by Koozyt, Inc.